Improvement in medical compounds for treating fever and ague



Qbjalldwhcm tt may concerm j Be it' known that I, GEORGE E SWAN, of Mount i Vemou, in the. county of Knox and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in ggatwt dfitiw.

?? gitmz G ORGE E. SWAN, or MOUNT VERNON, OHIO,

' Letters Patent No. 112,509, dated March 7, 1 871.

IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL COMPOUNDS FOR TREATINGQFEVER AND AG UE.

, V q I 'rhe schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same;

Medical Compounds and I do hereby declare that the following is. a full, clear, and'exact description of the composition of the'same.

, My invention has relation to "medical compounds,

, and consists in compounding and mixing together the ingredients, and in the proportions hereinafter men tioned, intended to serve as anefiicient remedy for. the disease known as fever andfague.

The ingredients and proportions areas ifollorvs Qninine, oneounce; capsicum annnum, five drains; ealomel, forty-eight grains sulphuric acid, one dram; charcoal, two drains; santonine, thirty-twograins gum ai-abic mucilage of quantities snflic'ient to make the entire mixture'of the proper consistency,

The method of compounding this mixture is as follows: a i a a p a I first take thequinine and cut it by pouring on the sulphuric acid; I then add thecapsicum annuum, the calomel, and santonine,and mix thoroughly, adding in the meantime the solution of gum arabic and- .the charcoal. I mix the entire compound thoroughly together until it is reduced to the proper consistency. I-

then make them into pills, making in all three'hundred and twenty pillsof three grains each.

Having thus explained my compound,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patcut, is-- The medical compound herein described, compounded in the manner, proportions, and for the purpose specified. I

In testimony that I claim ,the above I have'here unto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE E. SWAN.

Witnesses:

T. S. PARKE,

L. GREBE. 

